Dotfiles

Light Bash script to configure your machine as a developer. It contains a short list of configuration files and commands you'll need to start.

Disclaimer

1. it's definitely meant for Linux machines and GitHub accounts, but it may work with other platforms as well
2. it's very minimalist on purpose

How to use

git clone https://github.com/jmau111/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
bash install

You'll get a prompt that asks the name and the email you want to associate with your commits. People usually use a no-reply email for privacy purposes. For example, GitHub provides something like "{USER_ID}+{USERNAME}@users.noreply.github.com".

Be aware, such email will be public in your public repositories.

Files

• .gitconfig: main config file for your Git activities (the script only overrides some settings and add a few aliases)
• .gitignore_global: main config file for all files that should be ignored by Git
• .bash_profile: user configuration settings
• .bash_aliases: examples of helpful aliases…